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Interfaces between science and society / edited by Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz and Sylvia Tognetti.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781909493674
  • 1909493678
  • 1351280430
  • 9781351280433
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Interfaces between science and society.DDC classification:
  • 303.483 22
LOC classification:
  • Q175.5 .I57 2006
NLM classification:
  • 2007 F-513
  • Q 179.94
Other classification:
  • 02.10
Online resources:
Contents:
1. When communication fails : a study of failures of global systems / Jerome Ravetz -- 2. Science for sustainable development : articulating knowledges / Gilberto Gallopin and Hebe Vessuri -- 3. Reflexively dealing with uncertainty and complexity in policy-related knowledge : what can it mean? / Matthieu Craye -- 4. Uncertainty, assumptions and value commitments in the knowledge base of complex environmental problems / Jeroen Van der Sluijs -- 5. Science for governance : the implications of the complexity revolution / Mario Giampietro, Tim Allen and Kozo Mayumi -- 6. Reflexivity and modesty in the application of complexity theory / Roger Strand and Silvia Canellas-Bolta -- 7. Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processes / Cato C. ten Hallers-Tjabbes, David Gee and Sofia Guedes Vaz -- 8. Why knowledge assessment? / Silvio Funtowicz -- 9. Deliberating foresight knowledge for policy and foresight knowledge assessment / Rene von Schomberg, Angela Guimaraes Pereira and Silvio Funtowicz -- 10. Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes / Maria Eduardo Goncalves -- 11. Interfaces between science and policy for environmental governance : lessons and open questions from the European platform for biodiversity research strategy / Sybille van den Hove and Martin Sharman -- 12. Patents at the interfaces among science, society and the law / Emanuela Gambini -- 13. Evaluating public and stakeholder engagement strategies in environmental governance / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- 14. Community-based research / Jennifer A. Bellamy -- 15. Science and society in place-based communities : uncomfortable partners / David Waltner-Toews, Ligia Noronha and Dean Bavington -- 16. Science shops as science-society interfaces / Henk A.J. Mulder, Michael S. Jorgensen, Laura Pricape, Norbert Steinhaus and Anke Valentin -- 17. Building knowledge partnerships with ICT? : social and technological conditions of conviviality / Martin O'Connor -- 18. CSLoTs : communication of science to non-scientific audiences, VGAS : exploration of energy, lifestyles and climate / Tiago de Sousa Pedrosa and Angelo Guimaraes Pereira -- 19. Worldwide virtual network of practitioners working on science and society issues / Merce Aguera Cabo and Angela Guimaraes Pereira.
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Summary: As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate the changes that occur in the relationship between science and society.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. When communication fails : a study of failures of global systems / Jerome Ravetz -- 2. Science for sustainable development : articulating knowledges / Gilberto Gallopin and Hebe Vessuri -- 3. Reflexively dealing with uncertainty and complexity in policy-related knowledge : what can it mean? / Matthieu Craye -- 4. Uncertainty, assumptions and value commitments in the knowledge base of complex environmental problems / Jeroen Van der Sluijs -- 5. Science for governance : the implications of the complexity revolution / Mario Giampietro, Tim Allen and Kozo Mayumi -- 6. Reflexivity and modesty in the application of complexity theory / Roger Strand and Silvia Canellas-Bolta -- 7. Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processes / Cato C. ten Hallers-Tjabbes, David Gee and Sofia Guedes Vaz -- 8. Why knowledge assessment? / Silvio Funtowicz -- 9. Deliberating foresight knowledge for policy and foresight knowledge assessment / Rene von Schomberg, Angela Guimaraes Pereira and Silvio Funtowicz -- 10. Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes / Maria Eduardo Goncalves -- 11. Interfaces between science and policy for environmental governance : lessons and open questions from the European platform for biodiversity research strategy / Sybille van den Hove and Martin Sharman -- 12. Patents at the interfaces among science, society and the law / Emanuela Gambini -- 13. Evaluating public and stakeholder engagement strategies in environmental governance / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- 14. Community-based research / Jennifer A. Bellamy -- 15. Science and society in place-based communities : uncomfortable partners / David Waltner-Toews, Ligia Noronha and Dean Bavington -- 16. Science shops as science-society interfaces / Henk A.J. Mulder, Michael S. Jorgensen, Laura Pricape, Norbert Steinhaus and Anke Valentin -- 17. Building knowledge partnerships with ICT? : social and technological conditions of conviviality / Martin O'Connor -- 18. CSLoTs : communication of science to non-scientific audiences, VGAS : exploration of energy, lifestyles and climate / Tiago de Sousa Pedrosa and Angelo Guimaraes Pereira -- 19. Worldwide virtual network of practitioners working on science and society issues / Merce Aguera Cabo and Angela Guimaraes Pereira.

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As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate the changes that occur in the relationship between science and society.

English.

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